Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Stone of the Pregnant Woman

The Stone of the Pregnant Woman (Hajar al-Hibla) is an unfinished Roman limestone monolith of about 1,000 tonnes in an ancient quarry near Baalbek, Lebanon.

Stone spheres of Costa Rica (Las Bolas): over 300 pre-Columbian sculpted stone balls, up to 2.6 m and 25 tons, in the Diquís Delta; four sites became Costa Rica's first cultural World Heritage sites in 2014.

Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark

Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark, in southern New Brunswick, Canada, is North America's first geopark (2010), a 2,500 km² Bay of Fundy area with a 1-billion-year geological record and over 60 geosites.

Stonehenge

Stonehenge: Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, built from about 3100 BC and aligned on the midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset; its bluestones came from Wales and its Altar Stone from Scotland, and the proposed 365.25-day "Stonehenge calendar" has been shown to be a modern construct.

Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites: UNESCO World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England, inscribed 1986 under criteria (i)(ii)(iii); two chalkland landscapes of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments used circa 3700-1600 BC, including Stonehenge and Avebury's world-record stone circle.

Stoneyford

Stoneyford (Stonyford) names several places: a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the N10 with a reported first-century Roman burial; an electoral ward in Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland; a Grade II Worcestershire house; and a Derbyshire canal wharf.

Store Kongshøj

Store Kongshøj, a Danish Bronze Age burial mound in Vamdrup parish, southern Jutland; Early Bronze Age oak-coffin barrow (c. 1385 BC) excavated 1862, yielding a bronze dagger; also a Pleiades gazetteer ancient place.

Store-Dal

Store-Dal (Store-Dal Gravfelt) is a large Iron Age barrow cemetery at Skjeberg, Østfold, eastern Norway, near Hunn; about 184 mounds, Roman period inhumation mound 6 with a gold berlock, and a Viking Age kerbstone mound 145 imitating it.

Storgosia

Storgosia (Dianensium), Roman road station and Late Antique fortress near Pleven, Bulgaria, in Kaylaka Park on the Oescus–Philippopolis road; 4th-century walled settlement of 31,000 m² with a large Early Christian basilica, destroyed by Slavic invasions in the 6th–7th centuries.

Storkriket Biosphere Reserve

Storkriket Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in Skåne, Sweden, designated 27 September 2025 as the country's eighth biosphere reserve; 110,000 ha across Eslöv, Lund, and Sjöbo with 22% of Sweden's red-listed species.

Stracathro

Stracathro (Roman fort and camp, Angus, Scotland): Flavian/Agricolan fort of the AD 80s with annexe and 15.8 ha temporary camp whose clavicular 'Stracathro-type' gateways name a whole class of Roman camp; conventionally the most northerly Roman fort.

Strageath

Strageath: Roman auxiliary fort, annexes and field system at Muthill, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, at the west end of the Gask Ridge. Flavian fort from AD 79, abandoned late 80s AD, twice reoccupied under Antoninus Pius as an Antonine Wall outpost; excavated 1973-86 by Frere and Wilkes.

Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt

Strasbourg, Grande-Île, and Neustadt: UNESCO World Heritage property in Strasbourg, France. Grande-Île medieval centre inscribed 1988, Neustadt German imperial district added 2017, criteria (ii) and (iv), 183 ha.

Strassen Roman Milestone

Strassen Roman Milestone: uninscribed cylindrical Roman sandstone milestone found 1969 between Strassen-Dorf and Tassenbach in East Tyrol, Austria; marked 20 Roman miles from Aguntum; now east of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, a protected Austrian monument.

Strathclyde Country Park

Strathclyde Country Park: 400-hectare free-access country park at Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, around man-made Strathclyde Loch (filled 1975). 8-lane 2 km rowing course, Commonwealth Games rowing venue, built over the demolished village of Bothwellhaugh.

Strawberry Fields (memorial)

Strawberry Fields is the John Lennon memorial in Central Park, New York, near West 72nd Street opposite the Dakota. Named for "Strawberry Fields Forever," dedicated October 9, 1985, it centers on the Naples-donated Imagine mosaic.

Strebersdorf

Strebersdorf (Répcemicske), village in Lutzmannsburg, Burgenland, Austria; site of the largest Roman settlement landscape of Burgenland on the Amber Road, with military camps of the Ala Pannoniorum, a 7 ha vicus, and bog-iron smelting. A Vienna suburb shares the name.

Stretton Mill Fort

Stretton Mill Fort: Roman auxiliary fort near Watling Street, Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston, Staffordshire; cropmark site discovered by J.K. St Joseph in 1946, trenched 1947, pottery AD 50-200, scheduled monument 1006120.

Strøget

Strøget is Copenhagen's main pedestrian shopping street, 1.1 km from Rådhuspladsen to Kongens Nytorv, pedestrianized 17 November 1962, made up of four streets and three squares.

Strutt's Park Roman fort

Strutt's Park Roman fort: earliest Roman fort of Derby, Derbyshire, on the west bank of the River Derwent, established c. AD 50 and abandoned c. AD 80 for the Derventio fort at Little Chester.

Struve Geodetic Arc

The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey points from Norway to the Black Sea, measured 1816 to 1855 under Friedrich Struve and listed by UNESCO in 2005.

Studenica Monastery

Studenica Monastery (Манастир Студеница) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in central Serbia, founded in 1186 by Stefan Nemanja, Serbia's biggest and wealthiest Orthodox monastery, inscribed by UNESCO in 1986.

Student accommodation

Student accommodation covers university halls, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), private rentals, and family housing. Key facts: first dorm North Hall 1851, first purpose-built hall Edinburgh 1887, London PBSA rent £13,595 exceeding the £13,348 maintenance loan.

Studforth Hill

Studforth Hill, Aldborough, North Yorkshire: earthwork hill carrying the Roman amphitheatre of Isurium Brigantum (60 by 40 m, confirmed by magnetometry) and later a medieval motte, the Stuteville castle confiscated by the Crown in 1205.

Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1986) in North Yorkshire pairing a Cistercian abbey founded 1132, dissolved 1539, with the Aislabie family's 18th-century water garden, Fountains Hall, and St Mary's Church.

Stupa Mound

Stupa Mound at Ramnagar (Aonla), Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, is the chief Buddhist stupa of ancient Ahichchhatra, Panchala capital; locally called Chhatr, 30 feet exposed diameter, 40 feet high, ASI-protected.

Sturt National Park

Sturt National Park, NSW's largest western park at 325,329 ha in the arid Corner Country near Tibooburra, borders Queensland and South Australia, contains Ramsar-listed Lake Pinaroo and the Dingo Fence, and hosts the Wild Deserts mammal reintroduction project.